Tag Archives: Minifigs

Everybody loves LEGO minifigures — well, almost everybody. Minifigs are often the stars of the LEGO models we feature here on The Brothers Brick, but we also feature some amazing custom minifigs you’d never expect to see in an official LEGO set.

Space Vikings

And for my last post of the night, I give you Space Vikings:

I was inspired to try putting various things into their helmet holes by Classic-Castle forum user TwoTonic Knight’s Wild and Crazy Viking. I’m quite proud of the results. Heh heh…

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Brandi Carlile

Local girl Brandi Carlile is hands-down my new favorite singer. Don’t let her great looks or the widespread hype dissuade you from giving her a listen. Since this is a LEGO blog, I added her to my Music folder:

Norse and Napoleonic Minifigs

My 7018 Viking Ship vs. the Midgard Serpent arrived from Amazon.com a couple weeks ago, and I also won an eBay lot of fourteen Imperial Guards and Imperial Soldiers minifigs. Last weekend, I set about making several new historical and literary characters. First up, George Washington:

And from left to right, Horatio Nelson, Napoleon Bonaparte, and Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington:

I also made Erik the Red (not “historically accurate” with the horns, I know) and Beowulf:

Brick-Built Aliens

Twenty years ago or so, my brother and I spent our free time alternating between building giant castles and giant moon bases. To populate our spaceports and star cruisers, I designed several alien/robot heads and stuck them on my space torsos. My parents wouldn’t buy me a digital camera in the ’80s (heh heh), so these are recreations:

(The image is a link to the full gallery.)

Vikings are Useful

Japanese Brickshelf user MOKO is famous for using parts in unusual ways (among other things). MOKO’s latest creations use parts from the new Vikings line:

Can’t wait to pick up my Vikings…

More Literary Minifigs

I just uploaded twenty more literary minifigs. Here’s a sampling:

John Thornton and Buck from Jack London’s The Call of the Wild:

Mr. Hyde from Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde:

And links to the rest:

Guy Montag from Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451

David Bowman from Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey

Piggy, Ralph, and Jack from William Golding’s Lord of the Flies

Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley from Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises

John the Savage, Lenina Crowne , Mustapha Mond, and Bernard Marx from Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World

Atticus Finch, Boo Radley, and Scout Finch from Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird

Dr. Victor Frankenstein (and his monster) from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

Tom Joad from John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath

Dr. Henry Jekyll from Stevenson’s aforementioned novel

1984, Fahrenheit 451, Lord of the Flies, Brave New World — anybody see a pattern in my favorite books? Heh heh…

Literary Characters

I’ve been focusing on vignettes for a while, but this weekend I thought I’d try building a bunch of new minifigs.

Here’s the crew of the Pequod from Herman Melville’s Moby Dick:

(A note on Captain Ahab: This minifig is an essentially unmodified Hovercraft Pilot from 7045 Hovercraft Hideout. The head even has a scar that spans his face, just as Melville describes. I almost think the designer at LEGO had Captain Ahab in mind when developing this minifig.)

Here’s the title character from Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe:

And links to several more:

Philip Marlowe from Raymond Chandler’s series of detective novels

Henry Fleming (“The Youth”) from Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage

Santiago (the title character) from Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea

Winston and Julia from George Orwell’s 1984 (my favorite book)

Jim and Huck from Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Billy Pilgrim from Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five

More to come soon.

A Dog, a Turtle, an Old Guy in a Wheelchair, and a Lady at the Beach

Brickshelf user Michael Jasper is a master of using minifig-hands in unusual ways. I’m not quite sure what he updated in his sundries folder, but these jumped out at me today:

I especially like his beach scene (note the bikini top):

Minifigs from 1900

Patrick Bosman has created several fantastic minifigs reminiscent of the turn of the last century. Patrick demonstrates that the accessories are often as important as the minifigs themselves:

Edit (9/9/05): Here are a couple more I think he’s added recently:

The lace on the maid’s skirt is truly a unique use of the flower!

Oh, and sorry about the Japanese last week. I was in a weird mood. Heh heh.

日本伝説のLEGO

今日は「ナルニア国ものがたり」の作品ではなく、桃太郎・金太郎・浦島太郎など、日本の伝説を元にしたLEGOを作ろうかと思いました。と言うことで、以下のミニフィッグを作りました。

日本が懐かしかったので、おばあさんとお地蔵様の田舎っぽいヴィネッとも作りました。

それでは、どう思いますか？コメントをどうぞ。

Canada and Narnia

Hurray! My BrickLink order just arrived, so now my collection of Studios Monsters is complete! Pics to follow this weekend.

In the meantime, I took pictures of all the Narnian minifigures I’ve created so far. Here’s the link:

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=141949

(Oh, “Canada and Narnia” in the title because my BrickLink order was from Quebec. Great prices and cheap shipping. I’ll post a link to the store later.)

No BrickLink order...

For those of you just tuning in, BrickLink is a site where you can buy LEGO from thousands of people worldwide. What’s cool is that you can buy individual pieces as well as sets. For me, it’s a great way to get minifigs from sets I’ve missed or don’t plan on buying. I’ve recently ordered 1381 Vampire’s Crypt, Professor Mcgonagall from a fairly expensive Harry Potter set, and a couple other random minifigures.

Last weekend I ordered the Mad Scientist and Frankenstein’s Monster from 1382 Scary Laboratory, along with the Mummy minifig from 1383 Curse of the Pharoah. Ordering these three minifigs for around $7.00 saved me over $40.00 (assuming I could even find these discontinued sets for less than MSRP).

Well, I was really looking forward to getting this latest order this weekend (since they shipped airmail from eastern Canada on Monday), but there was no little package in the mailbox today. I’ll survive, I’m sure, but this means I won’t be updating my Puddleglum figure to use the head and hands from Frankenstein’s Monster. We watched two consecutive baseball games today (Red Sox vs. Angels and Mariners vs. Twins), so I was able to finish a really nice vignette of the Cair Paravel treasure house from Prince Caspian. Look for a post with a link tomorrow. In the meantime, I uploaded pictures of all the Narnian minifigures I’ve created so far:

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=141949